as a child

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: when one was a child
I went there once as a child.

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While Zendaya has been in the spotlight since her days as a child star on the Disney Channel, her siblings keep lower profiles. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 31 July 2026 Aurora Corona, a former Pico Union Neighborhood Council member, remembers visiting the theater as a child. — Hanna Kang, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026 Her, who came to the United States as a child refugee, made history as the city’s first Hmong and first female mayor. — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 29 July 2026 President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey, the same man Flora grew up watching as a child growing up in the East Bay, waited at the top of the stairs as Flora emerged from the dugout an hour before the Giants faced the visiting Brewers. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for as a child

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“As a child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20a%20child. Accessed 3 Aug. 2026.

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